劃
huáhuà HSK4

cut, delimit, draw

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Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 畫 represents the sound.

Components

畫
畫 Sound component
刂
刂 Meaning component

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthweakgʷˤrek draw (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“劃，錐刀曰劃。从刀，从畫，畫亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)